Political Europe
« The Left, the Right, the Angry » : commentary on the Irish February 2016 elections
EuroCité contributor Terry Connolly analyzes in this article the last Irish elections of 2016, which have seen the defeat of the Left and Labour. As he explains, the Irish elections are both an important part of European politics, but also a foretaste of what awaits other European states during next...
The Eurozone: Looking For The Sovereign
The Eurozone – because it remains an incomplete construct – has reached a critical point where its very existence is at stake. The Greek crisis and its never-ending drama, with the July 5 referendum, the “Grexit” strategy of some member states, the July 13 in extremis agreement and the vote...
Europeanising our National Parties!
Almost one year ago, EuroCité and the Jean-Jaurès Foundation co-organised a post-European election meeting, through their “European City” initiative, that brought together leftist European thinkers and activists in Paris. This initial gathering was followed by a public meeting on the question of how to europeanise national parties. From this, a...
Europe on the Edge of the Democratic Cliff
Since the beginning of 2015, two opposed events (by virtue of their underlying rationales and their protagonists) have dominated the news in Europe: the ECB’s plan to buy massive amounts of sovereign debt and the electoral victory of Syriza in Greece. On the one hand, an independent European institution emancipated...
In an Unstable Equilibrium: The European Partisan System at the Dawn of a New Term
This article follows on the heels of a series of texts published since 2010 that study the evolution of the European social democratic Left over the course of the legislative elections held in the European Union (EU). These elections continually reconfigure the balance of power in the Council, which is...
